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Retablo

Nicario Jimenez Quispe, "Minka" ("Communal Work"), Retablo, Lima, Peru, 1985. Wood, plaster, potato flour, paint. Museum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.1987.119.2 . Minka is a Quechua term for communal labor. Reciprocity is central to rural Andean life with family and neighbors pitching in to build houses, to plant and harvest fields, and to celebrate together when the work is done.

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